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by kps 2y ago
All of the keyboards: https://g.co/double-sided — (current) Gboard Double-Sided version (2024) https://g.co/CAPS — Gboard CAPS version (2023) https://g.co/_____ — Gboard Bar version
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by kps 2y ago
There's a browser extension that provides links to Fandom alternatives on various topics: https://github.com/KevinPayravi/indie-wiki-buddy
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by kps 2y ago
I have seen people use commas . Don,t do that.
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by kps 2y ago
Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off.
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by kps 2y ago
Belongs to members of your family? Nickname yourself ‘Hop’, and it's Hops' kins'.
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by kps 2y ago
The hard part about getting an n+1 ᵗʰ-generation photocopy today would be finding an actual photo copier.
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by kps 2y ago
Most likely the SoC has one port, and the other is hanging off USB.
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by kps 2y ago
Likewise, I still have an n ᵗʰ generation photocopy I made in the mid '80s. (My employer at the time had a source license and an n-1 ᵗʰ generation photocopy.)
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by kps 2y ago
I take the Incredibles approach: When everything is coloured, nothing is.
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by kps 2y ago
For some of us with higher-order visual aberrations, dark mode is a non-starter. (The converse holds for some people with cataracts.) The OSC 11 control sequence lets a program determine the background color, but few bother. Usually, someon
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by kps 2y ago
There is no other kind of observation. You observe a photon when it and your retina (or device) participate in a physical interaction.
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by kps 2y ago
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desir
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by kps 2y ago
No good material. The usual material for safety glasses (polycarbonate) scratches easily. A grinder guard would be see-through for about three seconds.
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by kps 2y ago
Sadly, Google (Gemini) is aware of the quote, and does not provide an unbiased determination as to whether four seconds is enough to hot up the disintegrator.
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by kps 2y ago
It wasn't meant to be read from a screen. (A browser doesn't show the Form Feed character at each page number.)
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by kps 2y ago
For those with stronger prescriptions who want higher index lenses to reduce thickness (and weight), look at http://opticampus.opti.vision/tools/materials.php and/or talk to your optician about available materials
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by kps 2y ago
These days? Intel, 1999: “The actual user of the PC — someone who can do anything they want — is the enemy.” https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-biggest-security-threat-yo...
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by kps 2y ago
> If you want to replace by pasting, you'd lose the first selection by selecting what you want to have replaced. Yes, that's the tradeoff; you'd have to delete that separately. This would be quite close the X11 primary s
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by kps 2y ago
The alternative, as used e.g. by the Xerox Star, was select-and-copy/move. The advantage over cut-and-paste is that you don't have invisible fragile state. However, the Star implementation had copy and move modes (select source,
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by kps 2y ago
Double-clicking is also undiscoverable . People had to be taught about it. Nothing natural or previously familiar works that way.
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by kps 2y ago
> [Insert after #11 and before #12, shifting the rest down] Now ask it why John Searle isn't on the list. See whether you eventually get to a fixed point or a cycle.
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by kps 2y ago
Japan didn't know until August 9 that the US was able to build plutonium bombs. Edit since I can't reply: The difference is meaningful when you're deciding whether to surrender. If you know that the US doesn't have enoug
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by kps 2y ago
> the US didn't have the resources for more They were correct that the US didn't have the resources for a second uranium bomb.
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by kps 2y ago
Notwithstanding non-English characters, we say Germany not Deutschland, Sweden not Sverige, Finland not Suomi, Italy not Italia, .... And flagging is too often just bullies' super-downvote.
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by kps 2y ago
Unicode is OK (flawed but OK), emoji in Unicode suck. The worst part is Unicode breaking existing documents by retroactively converting some common symbols emoji-default, despite supposed stability guarantees. The second worst part is the e
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by kps 2y ago
> Xcompose only offers sequences started with the "compose" key (whatever it is mapped to) Not correct. For example, on my usual keyboard layouts¹, I use sequences starting with <dead_A> and <dead_U> for superscript
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by kps 2y ago
Newline vs Submit, instead of one key doing either depending on whether you're in a multiline text field. Another I miss (that Apple didn't have either) making the same distinction is Next/Previous instead of overloading Tab.
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by kps 2y ago
The earlier Chromecasts did run a cut down Chrome on cut down ChromeOS. https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
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by kps 2y ago
Not having used djot myself, does “rethink tight/loose lists” refer to that?
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by kps 2y ago
Better late than never. “The actual user of the PC — someone who can do anything they want — is the enemy.” (Intel, 1999)¹ ¹ https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-biggest-security-threat-yo...

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